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Aug 23, 2024 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett |Drew Brown
BY Matthew Hollett You can find such surprising and funny things while digging through archives. The Pilote de Terre-Neuve, published in 1869, is full of dollhouse-like illustrations of Newfoundland’s coastline, complete with tiny ships and houses. I also came across a sea captain’s letter to his daughter, in which he describes “seven little gulls recently hatched” that he is attempting to raise.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett
Perchance Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened July 6 (find their full schedule here), and it is chockablock with lovely foolishness.
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May 24, 2024 | 
nqonline.ca | Paul Chafe |Matthew Hollett |Michelle Porter
BY Paul Chafe All I Ask by Eva Crocker House of Anansi 320 p $22.95 Reflect for a moment on the title of Eva Crocker’s first novel, All I Ask.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett |Shannon Webb-Campbell
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a PhD student at Memorial where I’m working on a thesis in contemporary Irish literature. I live downtown St John’s and usually serve coffee somewhere while I write and work at the university. I climb Signal Hill every day and play drums and bass in bands with my friends!One short fiction how-to is to get the reader quickly into the situation, but I was really struck by your situations – the protagonist who answered the help line for IKEA, for example.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett
BY Matthew Hollett When I signed up for my first photography class in art school, my dad rummaged around in the basement and placed a heavy leather case in my hands. I unbuckled it to find his old 35mm camera, a Zenit EM. It had an enormous dent above the lens, as if it had deflected a bullet, and its selenium light meter, mysteriously, did not require batteries.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett
Did you grow up in a musical household? I grew up in a very musical household. My Dad was a great singer, and my Mother played piano a little. I have five sisters and a brother, and we all were in piano lessons and played another instrument. In fact, we had a family music group called “The Brennan Family” (lead by my Aunt Bridie) and we would perform on benefit concerts, at conferences, and at old-folks homes. Five of my brothers and sisters chose music as a profession.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett
It’s 1963. Marco (Luciano Decicco) returns to his alma mater Northumberland School in Manhattan after failing in his dream of a show business career. Now he will teach drama. His sister Debra (Ali Powell) is a top student and the best dancer, a ranking confirmed by Principal Sherman (Michelle Shuster). Though dance instructor Sophia (Mikayla Stradiotto) might have her own idea about this – she has her own ideas about everything.
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May 4, 2023 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett
– Ned Pratt to Anthony Germain, on being asked what emotion he hopes his work evokes in the viewer, CBC Radio’s On the Go, May 4, 2023“In 2022 I began working in a new proportion, 32″ × 64″,” Pratt says in his arts statement. “Essentially, these dimensions represent two squares. The change in composition offers me a new versatility and the opportunity for a more rhythmic composition. It permits me to get further back from my subject matter and changes the way I see the landscape.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
nqonline.ca | Matthew Hollett
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a writer and photographer in St John’s. My background is in visual arts, and my writing is often very visual – I’ve published essays of writing and photos, and I enjoy writing in response to images. My poetry book Optic Nerve has just been published by Brick Books – an earlier version of it also won the NLCU Fresh Fish Award a few years back.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
tnq.ca | Matthew Hollett
I first encountered the work of Irish writer and artist Sara Baume through a friend who recommended her novel A Line Made By Walking. The title immediately intrigued me – it’s plucked from an artwork by British artist Richard Long, who in 1967 walked back and forth across a field until his path was well-trod enough to became a visible line. I remember marveling over Long’s walk-work when I was studying conceptual art and photography in art school.
